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SHIRT.

No. 597,215. Patented Jan. 11,1898.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

GEORGE D. EIGHMIE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,2l5, dated January 11, 1898.

Application filed November 16, 1897. Serial No. 658,675. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. EIGHMIE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the, county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirts, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to an improvement in shirts, the novelelement consisting in placing the buttonhole for the front collar-button in the bosom of an open-front shirt having a closed-front neckband in contradistinction to placing it in the neckband.

The desirability of open-front shirts with closed-front neckbands has long been conceded by shirt manufacturers and attempts have heretofore been made to introduce them. These attempts, however, have proved fruitless, owing to the tendency of the overlying edge of the bosom to become torn from the neckband in the operations of washing, wringing, and ironing.

By my invention the above-noted objection is avoided, and in addition thereto new and useful results have been accomplished.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a broken elevation of a shirt embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a broken perspective view of the same with the neckband omitted and the overlying flap of the bosom turned back to show the attachment of the two parts by the stitching of the buttonhole. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the buttonhole for the front collar-button.

Referring to the drawings, A and A are the two parts of the bosom, B the shirt-body, and O the neckband.

In preparing the bosom for the reception of the neckband I lap the part A over part A and cut the buttonhole 1 for the front collarbuttonthrough both thicknesses at the same time, after which the buttonhole is finished by stitching through both thicknesses at the same time, this stitching holding the parts in proper relation to each other, and thus facilitating the application of the neckband, which is joined to the bosom by a line of stitching 2 immediately above the buttonhole 1. If desired, the thickness of that portion of the bosom in which said buttonhole is formed may be reduced by cutting away one of the linings, as shown in dotted lines at 3.

My invention herein described is not to be considered in connection with a closed-front bosom having a closed-front neckband and a buttonhole in the bosom below the neckband, as patents already granted to me illustrate and describe such a construction.

One of the advantages of an open-front bosom with a closed-front neckband is that the attached neckband prevents irregular stretchin g of the respective parts of the bosom, thereby maintaining the stud-holes 4 in both parts always in true alinement and causing the bosom to set smooth in use. New by my present invention I not only prevent tearing of such a bosom from the neckban d, as the stitching of the buttonhole forms a permanent stay, but I also provide for keeping the parts of the bosom in their proper relative positions while the neckband is being attached.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an article of manufacture, an open-front shirt having a closed-front neckband and a buttonhole for the front collar-button formed in the bosom beneath the neckband,the stitching of said buttonhole uniting the two parts of the bosom.

In testimony whereof I affin my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE D. EIGHMIE.

Witnesses:

G. W. BALLOCH, WM. HUNTER illness. 

